oxalis

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The varieties include Pride of Barbados, salvia griegga, oxalis, rowelia, buckeye and Virginia creeper, among others.

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  1. noun Any of numerous plants of the genus Oxalis, having often cloverlike compound leaves with three leaflets and variously colored flowers that are usually clustered in umbels. Also called wood sorrel.

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  1. Latin oxalis, wood sorrel, from Greek, from oxus, sour; see ak- in Indo-European roots.
 

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